Day 360: Aug. 30, 2008

jellybelly
Originally uploaded by budandmary

Bruuuuuuuuce! We concluded our trip with a Bruce Springsteen concert on the lakefront in Milwaukee. That was one crowded place!

Unfortunately, my camera-phone photos left so much to the imagination that they weren't even worth posting. For a set list, scroll to the bottom of this page.

Earlier in the day, we toured the Jelly Belly plant in Pleasant Prairie, Wisc. It was really just a trip around the warehouse (see the photo), so we think all of the actual candy-making must take place in California.

We also zipped over to the Chicago Harley shop for a couple of shirts before napping briefly to get set for the concert.

As we pulled out of the parking lot after the concert, the police officer directing traffic told Bud to turn on his headlight -- which was strange because it's supposed come on automatically when you start the bike.

Turned out that the low beam was out -- so Bud hit the high-beam button, probably to the annoyance of a few drivers, and we pulled onto I-94 once again.

We had decided to take a back road home, hopping off the interstate just before we reached the construction zone. That turned out to be a better plan than we could have dreamed because before we got back to the hotel, Bud's high-beam light stopped working too!

So for the final 15 or 20 miles, headlightless Bud followed me, trying to use my headlight to see and unable to avoid quite a few potholes in the darkness.

When we got back to the room in the wee hours of Sunday morning, we packed and showered so we could hit the road for home when we got up.